corpus

noun/ˈkɔrpəs/

Frequency rank: #6,492 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

A large collection of written or spoken texts used for linguistic analysis.

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Example sentence

The linguist analyzed thousands of texts in the corpus to find common speech patterns.

Synonyms & related words

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